The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . long home? Were you But at this instant another of the trio struck that which he took to be the treasure, andwith a scream that he had found it, drove his spade the what happened then no one seems to clearly know, butthe digger claims that the earth opened under his ieet and hesank with a yell to his armpits, while all manner of uncannynoises came from out the darkness. The others managed torecover their wi
The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . long home? Were you But at this instant another of the trio struck that which he took to be the treasure, andwith a scream that he had found it, drove his spade the what happened then no one seems to clearly know, butthe digger claims that the earth opened under his ieet and hesank with a yell to his armpits, while all manner of uncannynoises came from out the darkness. The others managed torecover their wits, and pulled up the half-buried treasure-hunter; but no one stopped for furthersearch after gold, but tumbled the earthback as fast as could be and ran for home,never looking back for fear the evil onemight be close behind. The man whofound the buried riches was later takenwith what was thought the dread dis-ease, and there has been no treasurehunting around that rock since. Cotissimoo, meaning a great spring ofwater, is said to be the earliest Indianname of this our beauty spot. BY WAY OF THE WOODS. Beyond Tashmoo there is a choice of roads where the guideboard points. Turn liere for LambertsCove. 144 MARTHAS VINEYARD. toward Lamberts Cove, and the writer inclines this way, as thisis the quiet way, and one which the automobile does not somuch frequent. This is the usual attractive woodland road of this region,clean and solitary, arched with oaks beneath whose branches isspread a variegated carpet of huckleberry and other bushes;when conditions and season are right Indian pipes may beglimpsed among the lower foliage or the brilliant yellow-red ofthe wood lily, but mostly the road is a bower of living, spar-kling green, streaked by the gray-brown of the tree trunks. MAKONIKEY. On the way we pass the entrance to that monumental fail-ure, Makonikey, of which many a Vineyarder can truly say, wemourn our loss. This is a sightly spot, the eastern point ofLamberts Cove, where itseem
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